"Carapace" by Matthew Ryan Frankel, winner of the 2023 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
The author of "Good Night, Irene" on his mentor Ursula Le Guin and turning his mother's WWII memories into a novel
Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agency
In Julia Langbein's novel "American Mermaid," a writer's Hollywood adaptation of her book goes hilariously awry
"On the Rooftop" from BEIJING SPRAWL by Xu Zechen, recommended by Jeremy Tiang
A reading list for hopeless romantics at any age
Gina Apostol’s novel “La Tercera” blurs the line between traitors and heroes to ask hard questions about complicity
Curl up with a mocktail and Claire Vaye Watkins “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness” while you search for home
Celeste Lipkes, author of “Radium Girl,” recommends poems confronting difficult-to-discuss medical diagnoses
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